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Quick action thwarts sleeping sickness

Published on
November 3, 2000
Last updated
May 27, 2015

The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine helped save the life of a tourist suffering from deadly sleeping sickness contracted in a Zambian game park.

The school supplied the drug suramin to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, which had run out. The patient is now recovering.

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